Week 9 (2009/03/10, 14)

Implementation of new schedule!

Tuesday session: 18:30-21:30 @ CIL lab

Sat. session: 10:30-13:30 @ CIL lab

Please bring everything you were asked to buy in the last week.

We are going to finish the relay building and hopefully start the class for arduino.

Reference for relay

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/继电器

Things to bring on week 8 (2009-03-04/06)

Things to bring on week 8 (2009-03-04/06)

We are going to build a relay module to control in the coming week, please prepare the following components.

-13/15A electrical wire (2 yards, around 2m)

-13A socket

-9V battery clip

-9V battery

-Standard junction box with socket plate

-9V relay (Should cost less than $10)

-General purpose circuit board

-Push button/switch

Things to bring on week 7 (2009-02-24/27)

Things to bring

-Everything you used in the last few lessons (e.g. breadboard, 9V battery..etc)

Topics

-555 beat box

-final project idea presentation

We are going to build a beatbox base on a timer chip (555 timer).

The schematics could be found here [link].

You are also required to prepare for the idea/concept of the final project before you present the final project proposal in week 8 (1st week in march). Please feel free to send me an email (yiublin[at]cityu.edu.hk)

Some hints for you on the final project

-Some DIY kits with varies function (www.kitsrus.com)

-Make weekend projects(http://blog.makezine.com/archive/weekend_projects/)

And be creative, think of something about electronics and you want to do, we can start from there and work it out as a final project.

Cheers~

Things to bring on week 6 (2009/02/18, 20)

We are going to move the amplifier circuit to a circuit board.

Bring the following items

i) Milk box (Common small size fresh milk box)

ii) Everything you used in week 5

iii) LED in different colors

Things to bring in week 5

We are going to cover the following topics in the coming week

-Ohm's law and safety revisit

-Series and parallel circuits

-A.C. and D.C.

-Using multi-meter

-Introduction to electronics components

-Building circuit on breadboard

-Build an amplifier base on the following link (http://josepino.com/circuits/?mini_amplifier_lm386.jpc)

Please bring the following items for week 5

i) 0.1 uF capacitor x3

ii) 10 uF capacitor  x3

iii) 0-30 Ohm speaker module

iv) 9V battery 

v) breadboard

vi) ipod/iphone/radio/walkman?! Anything with a 3.5mm headphone adaptor+ able to output music